Evelyn Goldfield, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
A wavepacket study of the dynamics of the dissociative photodetachment of (HOCO)- is presented. This work models the experiments of R. Continetti and coworkers (J. Chem. Phys. 117, 6487 (2003)). We present the theoretical and computational methods that we employ and compare our results to the experimental ones. We compute the photodetachment cross section, the product branching ratio, the distribution of electron kinetic energies and the translational energy distribution in the OH + CO channel. We will also briefly discuss a study of the CH + H2 reaction that involves quantum dynamics, classical dynamics and statistical models.
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